RIO TINTO REAL ESTATE SAU

Rio Tinto (registered as RIO TINTO REAL ESTATE SAU and trading through the website rtfruit.com) is a Spanish agricultural company that describes itself as a pioneer in sustainable and organic farming. Despite a corporate name that references real estate, the business presented on its official site is the cultivation, packing, and international sale of fresh fruit. The company was founded in 1988 by the Garavilla family together with Carlos Morera, who is identified as the current General Manager (Director General) of the company. It became a producer in its own right in 1994, according to the company history on its website. Rio Tinto positions itself as a vertically integrated fruit company operating "from field to table." Its value chain covers four stages: cultivation and harvesting in a privileged natural environment; a packing plant located on its own estates; sustainable logistics; and sales through the main international distribution channels. The company states that it produces 100% of its fruit and controls quality throughout the entire process, and that all shipments are freshly harvested fruit. The company's production is certified organic. On its website it reports around 900 productive hectares, more than 20,000 tonnes of fresh fruit, five fruit categories, and more than 20 years of experience, exporting to more than 15 countries. Its stated international presence includes Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Finland, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway, Romania, Sweden, and Switzerland. Rio Tinto's stated purposes are to provide customers with tasty, healthy, highest-quality fruit; to protect consumer health by offering certified organic product; to respect the environment by minimizing its impact on the natural surroundings in which it works; to manage resources efficiently; to avoid products that could negatively affect biodiversity and the ecosystem; and to ensure full traceability of the product from field to table. The company is privately held and is not known to be listed on a stock exchange.

Rio Tinto was founded in 1988 by the Garavilla family and Carlos Morera, who remains the company's General Manager (Director General). The company's own history states that in 1994 it became a producer, moving from its earlier role into direct cultivation. Over the following decades it developed a vertically integrated model: cultivation and harvesting in its natural environment, a packing plant located on its own estates, sustainable logistics, and sales through the main international distribution channels. The company built its identity around organic and sustainable agriculture, describing itself as a pioneer in sustainable and ecological farming. Its website reports around 900 productive hectares, more than 20,000 tonnes of fresh fruit, five fruit categories, and more than 20 years of experience, with exports to more than 15 countries. Its listed international presence spans Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Finland, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway, Romania, Sweden, and Switzerland. The registered corporate name, RIO TINTO REAL ESTATE SAU, indicates a Spanish simplified joint-stock company (Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal). The commercial fruit business operates under the Rio Tinto name and the rtfruit.com website. The company is privately held.

• 1994

  The company becomes a producer.

• 1988

  Rio Tinto is founded by the Garavilla family and Carlos Morera, current General Manager of the company.

Pioneer in sustainable and organic agriculture; vertically integrated producer of certified organic fresh fruit sold through major international distribution channels.

• Certified organic fresh fruit

  Freshly harvested fruit produced 100% by the company and certified organic.

1. 1Pioneros en agricultura sostenible y ecológica - Rio Tintortfruit.com
2. 2RIO TINTO REAL ESTATE SAU - Wikidatawikidata.org